Would you like to know more? Would you like a recruitment pamphlet? Would you like to put your entire life in a duffel bag? Would you like to take orders from an unlisted phone number?

What else is there, other than bits and atoms? What do you mean "mere?" If you are a materialist, which most AI researchers seem to be, "bits and atoms" are *everything*, no?

People would rather take SSRIs and work a useless email job for $60k than go to the construction site for $160k rn

IMO, writers should primarily use “said,” “asked,” “replied,” and maybe “continued.” You can use “said” even when the speaker is yelling. “Whimpered,” “shrieked,” “roared,” “blubbered,” etc. are like habaneros: use sparingly!

Some toxicology mythbusting: "Natural" ingredients are not necessarily safer or better for you than synthetic chemicals. "Chemical" itself is kind of a misnomer the way it is used pejoratively - water is a chemical. I often hear the complaint of something being an "endocrine disruptor" by the same people using certain essential oils, beans, and whole grains... which also act as endocrine disruptors. They're nearly unavoidable! Similarly, one of my family members recently said she doesn't drink certain artificial sweeteners because they're "carcinogenic", but the truth is they are carcinogenic only at very high doses that would be impossible to get in the form of even a six-pack of diet Coke in a day. Know what else is classified as a carcinogen? Aloe vera. I think there's a lot to be said for changes that can be made with low cost/high benefit to health - putting an air purifier in your bedroom, checking the tap water quality in your area, installing a shower filter, learning about and avoiding certain chemicals that ARE toxic in small amounts or with limited exposure, detoxing in a sauna, checking daily-used beauty products on EWG, or wearing a mask when working with household cleaners (due to the direct impact on lung volume). That's where I'd put most of my energy, not on, say, avoiding ANY synthetic ingredient or traditional product without informed reasoning to do so.

Unmasked neurodivergent people are often direct and genuinely curious, which can really unsettle people who are fake and performative.

i think this is what it will feel like when we all begin to be socially outcompeted by the machines btw. the insufficiency of our friends will stand out. the shallow conversation trees, the posturing, the clumsy manipulation and poorly disguised self-interest

WAIT WAIT WAIT — SO APPARENTLY WHEN YOU (OR YOUR KID) ARE ABOUT TO DO A CHORE, AND SOMEONE TELLS YOU TO DO IT, YOUR BRAIN AUTOMATICALLY REFUSES JUST BECAUSE THEY ASKED?? Yes, and it actually has a clinical name:

they should offer two types of screenings for You Can See Everything: one for normal people and one for people who want to performatively laugh at everything that’s humorous or awkward